Our department has created an impact that spans beyond our institution’s city, state, and country through clinical care initiatives, international rotations, and participation in global conferences. Here are just a few of the ways our we have improved patient outcomes and advanced medical knowledge on a global scale.

Physicians at the UAB Pain Treatment Clinic are offering a new treatment for chronic low back pain. The treatment focuses on stimulating one of the key stabilizing muscles of the lumbar spine, the multifidus muscle, which is often dysfunctional in patients after injury or stress to the spine, spinal discs, or other soft tissues surrounding the spine.